make better business decisions with google analytics
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Make Better Business Decisions With Google Analytics
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HI, I’M DAVE DELANEY
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“Data makes your briefcase heavy...insights make you rich.”
– Niall Fitzgerald, Former Chairman of Unilever
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TO UNLOCK NEW OPPORTUNITIES, TRUE INSIGHTS MUST BE
Novel Actionable Credible
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Use data to make business decisions rather than opinions or gut instincts.
USING DATA
Data: facts or statistics to reference
Analytics: patterns and trends
Insights: actionable value
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AGENDA
INTRO TO GOOGLE ANALYTICS Understand how Google Analytics can help you make business decisions
FIND ANSWERS WITH REPORTS Ask the right questions to better understand your customers INTERPRET REPORTS Filters, segments, dimensions, and more USE GOOGLE ANALYTICS WITH OTHER GOOGLE TOOLS
RECAP & RESOURCES
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● On 10/14/2020, a new version of Google Analytics launched.
● This presentation features the older version of Analytics but the concepts apply to both versions.
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A NOTE ABOUT GOOGLE ANALYTICS
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Intro to Google Analytics
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GOOGLE ANALYTICS
Google Analytics is free software that you can use to understand visitor behavior on your website and mobile app.
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Use Google Analytics to gain valuable insights that can help you make strategic business decisions.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
See demographic info for your most profitable customers
Learn which search terms and sources drive the most traffic
Understand what content your audience is most interested in
Evaluate which channels drive the most conversions
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SET UP GOOGLE ANALYTICS
● Visit g.co/analytics
● To create an account, click Start for free
● Set up a property in your Analytics account
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YOUR GOOGLE ANALYTICS ACCOUNT
● Review the reports and metrics you care about most
● Quickly check the health of your accounts
● Create, customize and share dashboards
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Find Answers With Reports
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Meet Eva and Ricky
Source: Black Illustrations
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● Created a new t-shirt design, loved it, and immediately added it to the website banner
● Cut prices when sales were down
● Assumed target audience was women, age 35-44
USING GUT INSTINCTS
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GET STARTED USING DATA
STEP 1: OUTLINE GOALS What are you trying to achieve?
STEP 2: ASK QUESTIONS What answers do you need?
STEP 3: VIEW REPORTS How can you find the answers?
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STEP 1: DEFINE GOALS
Specific
Measureable
Attainable
Relevant
Time-sensitive
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Decrease shopping cart abandonment rate to under 60%.
RICKY & EVA’S GOAL
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Ideas: Leads, appointments, sales, phone calls, foot traffic, downloads, etc.
What are your goals?
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STEP 2: ASK QUESTIONS
Reach Who is your audience?
Convert Do leads become customers?
Engage Can visitors find answers?
Sustain Are customers loyal?
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● What are people searching for?
● Who is your audience?
● How do they find you online?
REACH QUESTIONS
Reach
Engage
Convert
Sustain
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● What do people do once they find you?
● Where do customers engage you online?
● How do people interact with you online?
ENGAGE QUESTIONS
Reach
Engage
Convert
Sustain
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● Which channels drive conversions?
● What calls-to-action drive conversions?
● Which channels have a higher ROI?
CONVERT QUESTIONS
Reach
Engage
Convert
Sustain
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● Do people continue to engage? Where?
● Do you respond? How quickly?
● Do you give people a reason to return?
SUSTAIN QUESTIONS
Reach
Engage
Convert
Sustain
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STEP 3: USE REPORTS TO FIND ANSWERS
Realtime What’s happening now?
Behavior What do people do?
Audience Who visits the website?
Conversions Is the website successful?
Acquisition Where do they come from?
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REALTIME: WHAT’S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW?
● Watch goal completions as you test changes
● Monitor immediate effects on site traffic from new content
● Determine if a promotion drives traffic Realtime
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AUDIENCE: WHO VISITS YOUR WEBSITE?
● Understand the characteristics of users
● View demographics, interests, geo, language, and devices
Demographics
25 - 34 Male
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ACQUISITIONS: WHERE DO YOUR CUSTOMERS COME FROM?
● Understand how you acquire users
● Recognize patterns
● Find out how people find you through search
Acquisition
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BEHAVIOR: WHAT DO PEOPLE DO ON THE SITE?
Behavior Flow
● Visualize the path users travel, from one page or Event to the next
● Understand how website changes affect the conversion funnel
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CONVERSIONS: IS THE WEBSITE SUCCESSFUL?
● See how all your channels work together towards conversions
● Understand how changes impact conversions
Conversions
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NEW VS RETURNING: HOW LOYAL ARE YOUR CUSTOMERS?
● Learn how many customers come back after a first visit
● Gain insight into the behavior of new visitors versus returning visitors New vs Returning
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Gut Insights
Top audience is 35-44 years old and primarily female.
The primary driver of traffic to their website is paid ads.
Most purchases are from repeat customers, not first-time visitors.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS: WHAT THEY LEARNED
Google Analytics Data
Top audience is 25-34 years old and primarily male.
The primary driver of traffic to their website is organic search.
Most purchases are from first-time visitors to the site.
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Interpreting Reports
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DEFINITIONS
● Dimensions: A description or characteristic of data. Browser, Landing Page, and Campaign are examples.
● Segments: A subset of sessions or users that share common attributes
● Goals: Settings to track actions or conversions on your site or mobile app
● Events: A type of hit that tracks an interaction with site content
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WHAT ARE DIMENSIONS?
Dimensions describe your data. Each dimension can be given a different value.
You can use secondary dimensions to view your data with more granularity by adding another dimension to your report.
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USING SECONDARY DIMENSIONS
Secondary dimensions
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Click the report of choice
Select Primary Dimension
Click the drop-down menu to select Secondary Dimension
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HOW TO USE FILTERS IN THE REPORTS
Use Filters to specify what you want to display in the report.
Filter
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HOW TO USE SEGMENTS
Segments are subsets of your Analytics data. You can isolate segments to analyze and respond to the trends in your business.
Use segments to understand the activities of a specific audience, or remarket to groups based on their trending actions.
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SEGMENT TYPES
● Users: people who interact with your website
● Sessions: interactions by a single user, grouped together
● Hits: interactions during a session, such as pageviews, events, and transactions
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BUILD NEW SEGMENTS
Click +Add Segment at the top of your report page
Click +New Segment
Name the segment
Define your segment
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+NEW SEGMENT
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ABOUT GOOGLE ANALYTICS GOALS
Goals measure how well your site or app fulfills your target objectives.
They represent completed activities, called conversions, that contribute to the success of your business.
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What are your business goals and how can you measure them?
GOAL TYPES
Duration sessions that last a minimum amount of time
Destination when a specific website location is loaded
Pages/Screens per session when a visitor views a minimum number of pages or screens
Event goals when an action defined as an event is triggered
● Purchases ● Subscriptions ● Page Views ● Clicks ● Form Submissions
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SETTING UP GOALS
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NEW GOAL
Sign into Google Analytics
Click Admin
Navigate to the desired view
Click Goals
Click +NEW GOAL
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GOAL TYPES
● Goals from a template
● Custom goals
● Smart Goals
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ABOUT EVENTS
Events are user interactions with content that can be measured independently from a page or screen load.
They offer insight into user interactions on your website.
Events
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USING EVENTS
● Product previews
● Tracking engagement with embedded maps
● Video interactions
● Tracking form errors
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ABOUT TAG MANAGER
● Manage all your website tags without creating or editing code.
● Better understand your conversions, site analytics and more.
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Using Analytics With Other Google Tools
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CONNECT ACROSS YOUR GOOGLE PRODUCTS
Google Analytics
Google AdsSearch Console
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WHY LINK TO GOOGLE ANALYTICS?
● Learn what happens after users click on your ad
● Target specific users based on their previous behavior
● Use advanced machine learning
● Understand organic traffic and if keywords convert (or not)
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GOOGLE ANALYTICS PRODUCT LINKING
● First: create an account for each product
● In Analytics, click Admin, then select All Products
● Select the Link button for each product you want to link to Google Analytics
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Recap & Resources
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GOOGLE ANALYTICS: NEXT STEPS
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Review creative to represent the audience demographic.
Consider product changes to tailor merchandise to
all demographics.
Potential Actions:
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Review search queries and adjust bids and creative
accordingly.
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Consider offering promotions or a loyalty program to encourage
repeat customers
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WHERE TO GO FROM HERE?
Outline goals Choose tools
Ask questions Measure results, take action
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